Rami Farah is a Syrian dancer, actor and filmmaker born in Damascus,1980. He studied dance in Damascus at the High Institute for Dramatic Arts and graduated from The Arab Film Institute in 2007. A son of exiled parents, he now finds himself in exile as well. Throughout his oeuvre, themes of belonging and displacement recur, perhaps most pronounced in Farah’s first feature-length documentary A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy (2019) that sees Farah follow his beloved subject, famous Syrian actor Fares Helou, into exile in France, and in Farah’s most recent work Our Memory Belongs to Us (2021).
